Okay after playing against pyke in other lanes and picking him up as my secondary support.

ApexInTheCircle·6/5/2019, 9:29:23 AM·1 votes·1,021 views

His damage needs to be amped up a bit and his sustain needs to get cut in half or have it regen at a much lower speed. Maybe treat it like Tahm's where he has to be out of combat before it starts regening? What ever the case as an assassin he shouldn't have that kind of build in sustain.

Another idea is to let the healing scale with health that he has built instead of damage he has. Reward him for building stuff like Steraks or BC among other things. As it stands it feels like a war of attrition in other lanes, use your mana and cooldowns to wittle him away only to have him dip out of sight and come back with a large chunk of that health back.

Now that I think about it I'd love to see more playstyles on his aswell, maybe using stealth aggressively. Perhaps your next attack against an enemy out of stealth marks them and when you hook them or stab them through you get bonus damage = to a ratio based on your current converted hp.

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Thingamajig6/5/2019, 10:05:29 AM3 votes

if his damage goes up then he starts winning lanes his sustain is already balanced as he has no way of building a health pool the only form of in fight resistance that he has is killing you which in itself is balanced because if you avoid it he pops like a baloon

ContDeCaterinca16/5/2019, 10:30:58 AM2 votes

Aftershock Pyke already wins trades against a bunch of supports. He has 600 HP and 45 armor lv1. Never forget that.

He doesn't need damage amp.

Also why does his grey health last like forever? It should decay if he doesn't go out of sight to consume it.

LordRedStone Nr16/5/2019, 11:15:08 AM2 votes

Reward him for building stuff like Steraks or BC among other things.

That's exactly why they gave him a passive that forbids him to stack health, to encourage Tank builds. [zombie-brand-mindblown]

The Ecdysiast6/5/2019, 11:26:02 AM1 votes

What he needs most is to have his passive changed. It was an interesting idea, but failed in its execution because items just aren't designed for it. If he actually got the full value in AD that the HP costs, he'd be so insanely strong that he'd be top tier. But barring that, he gets too little. Nevermind the fact his new reliance on Lethality scaling for his stun and MS means he can't buy health/AD items without taking a massive hit to his utility.